I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.

Love transforms pleasure into pain.

It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.

Great liars are also great magicians.

Don't show your flaws.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.